"Belgium's Parliament, Government, Colleges and many websites suffered a strong DDoS cyberattack on Tuesday Belgium was hit by a major cyberattack on Tuesday, according to Belgian media, affecting many of the country's most important institutions. Its source is still unknown. The attack was a major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that took down both internal and public-facing networks. Hackers targeted Belnet, Belgium's government-founded Internet Service Provider that connects national government organizations such as the Parliament, ministries, educational institutions, and research centers. In addition, all the websites hosted on the .be top-level domain were affected. It is estimated that more than 200 Belgian government agencies have been affected by the attack..." https://news.softpedia.com/news/belgium-was-hit-by-a-massive-cyberattack-532812.shtml
"This massive DDoS attack took large sections of a country's internet offline... ...One of the reasons the attack was so disruptive was because those behind the disruption kept altering the techniques behind it. 'The fact that the perpetrators of the attack constantly changed tactics made it even more difficult to neutralize it,' said Dirk Haex, technical director at Belnet..." https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-...arge-sections-of-a-countrys-internet-offline/
